NEWS BULLETIN
May-June 2021
IDRiM 2021 Conference
11th International Conference 2021

(22-24 September 2021; Hybrid Kyoto and Online)

The IDRiM 2021 Conference website is now open! The theme of this year’s conference is “Reviewing the Effectiveness ofIntegrated Disaster Risk Management Initiatives: A Saga from 2000 to 2020”. IDRiM2021 takes on a special meaning as welook back at two decades of applied and theoretical research on IDRiM. Abstracts and special sessions related to conference
themes are due 31 May 2021. For more information, please visit http://idrim2021.com/IDRiM Café TalkAs the IDRiM Event Organization committee, we have started organizing IDRiM Café Talks. The 1st IDRiM Café Talk was heldon 30th March, inviting Prof. Ana Maria Cruz and Prof. Norio Okada. They shared with us their career trajectory. This activity's
main overarching purpose is to strengthen the links between IDRiM members in a friendly and informal online setting. IDRiM
Café Talks provide an interactive platform to share knowledge, experiences, and opinions on disaster and various relatedmatters.
More than 25 IDRiM members from all over the world participated at the 1st IDRiM Café Talk. We are pleased to share therecording of the presenters' talk from https://idrim.org/?p=8421. The next IDRiM Café Talk will be in June 2021. We are
more than welcome any comments/inputs from you to improve this event. Please send your opinions to society@idrim.org

New IDRiM Group
It is our pleasure to inform you that we have established the “IDRiM Women Scientists and Practitioners in Disaster Risk ScienceCommunity” group within the IDRiM Society. The group welcomes members of all genders who support and improve diversity
and gender equity in disaster risk science and practice. The group's vision includes encouraging and sustaining female scientists
and practitioners, especially those in their early career, and developing a worldwide gender-aware network of scientists andpractitioners. To this end, the group’s mission and objectives are:
Mission:to better understand the challenges, strengths, roles, responsibilities of women in the disaster risk domain;
to develop a trans-disciplinary network of gender-aware scientists, practitioners and gender equity advocates in thedisaster risk domain
Objectives:to promote activities that support society in facing hazards and disasters to achieve gender equality and diversity
to develop project ideas that acknowledge and support inclusive ideas and capacities of vulnerable groups
to build on the interest and capacities of gender-aware scientists and practitioners towards putting forward gender issues
in disaster risk science, policies and practice.

Call for Papers
Land Use Policy Special Issue: Community, land use and SDG implementation for climate adaptive cities
We are pleased to announce a new Special Issue entitled “Community, land use and SDG implementation for climate adaptivecities’’. This special issue invites international researchers who focus on urban resilience and urban with the help of integrated
planning. We would like to bring together the recent research on India to set an example for community, land use and SDG
implementation to achieve climate adaptive cities. You can read the full call for papers and find more information here. Fullpaper submission: 1st June 2021.
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/land-use-policy/call-for-papers/community-land-use-and-sdg-implementation

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